From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: "Peter Stephenson" <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com>,
"Zsh users list" <zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: RE: Probs with nested braces in PROMPT
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:19:24 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000801bfe733$a8aef590$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0FX900MG0TOBBR@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com>
>
> The problem was that ordinary ${...} doesn't know about
> %-substitution in
> prompts, nor should it (that would be a horrendous
> complication involving
> different levels of substitution). So it took the brace in
> `%}' as the
> brace closing the substitution.
Yes, of course. But why it did it only when parameter was undefined? I
mean, parsing is done by lexer - and it has to find the closing brace in
any case and lexer does not know (is it true?) about parameter values.
That is incosistent IMHO and smells more like a bug.
-andrej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-06 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-06 9:34 Bernd Eggink
2000-07-06 9:59 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-07-06 10:12 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-07-06 10:19 ` Andrej Borsenkow [this message]
2000-07-06 11:09 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-07-06 11:03 ` Bernd Eggink
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